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Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by unfocused »

I’ve been managing (volunteer) a Wordpress site for 12 years now for a non-profit organization that hosts a university competition. They post about 1 or 2 times a month, and I created a registration form and email confirmation. All free. The only fees they pay are server hosting and domain name. I think we have paid on average around $40 a year. So for the past decade, they spent $500 on website fees and no ads.

So I guess you can say if your goal is just to send information and don’t have a need for profit, I would say Wordpress is a good fit.

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by soared »

mitchdoogle wrote: post #38
goldcd wrote: post #23

I think the "private website" space is shrinking - despite what adverts for Wix and Squarespace might infer. The consumer/blog space of geocities, tripod and the like went to social media. Then we went through a period of "businesses putting up 10 pages for a fixed price" through first of all "a local web guy" then by themselves using Wix/WP/SS etc. I've just had a bathroom fitted by a guy who functions purely on Ins…

What are the dedicated CMS for industries? And do they cost the same as WordPress (free)?

Auto dealerships are a good example. They are run by some local guy who gets a little bit of support from corporate and probably has a low cost marketing agency. But none of them use Wordpress as there are CMSs for the industry. I don’t remember the old ones but the new startupy one is actually awesome but cannot seem to find their company name.

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by ggm »

Maybe I misread things, but this chart of market share is not declining in any real sense, its 1 percentage point variance in 43% share. So its 2% variance of their market share.

Did I misread?

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by stefanos82 »

kstrauser wrote: post #77
stefanos82 wrote: post #5

WordPress will continue losing market share for the simplest reason: people fed up with the coercion of Full-Site Editing (FSE) by Automattic. Community's reaction via comments' section [1] for Gutenberg plugin was a clear indication that people will eventually go away, had they not revoke their decision. They haven't which led to the fork [2] of WordPress thus dividing the community, at least for a while. Had they l…

What’s wrong with Gutenberg? I haven’t been following along with this at all.

They forced it down to people's throats without listening to anyone's reactions or objections.

I have tried to learn how to use it and have lost counting how many times they changed how it works as a whole.

You have no idea how excruciatingly painful is for me to use it that I have 22 years of professional experience with computers; imagine how non-tech savvy users feel when they try to use it!

Not all people are computer literate or are interested in technology in general, what they don't understand?!

Users want a tool to do their job and they want it to be stable, safe, and robust; don't change this concept or you will lose them on the spot, PERIOD!

Instead of letting Gutenberg as a plugin it originally were (well, technically it still is offered as a plugin, but that's another story) - so people can choose whether to use it or not - they forced it to the community and on top of that they are working non-stop on implementing new mechanisms or ideas that cancel previous features, thus leading to a mad chaos.

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by chris_wot »

It is shrinking because they have decided to pivot to Gutenberg. What they don't realise is that there is a major cottage industry of people developing custom themes for their clients, who use things like WooCommerce for selling. These people know how Wordpress works through the old, classic system of themes but couldn't care less about block themes.

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by chris_wot »

jokabrink wrote: post #16

From the blog post: > If WordPress is shrinking, something else must be growing, this is, after all, a zero sum game. The very clear winners at the moment are Wix and Squarespace. I disagree with the authors findings: When taking a look at the quaterly data https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_ma... , one can clearly see that WP and Shopify at least plateaued which is alright. But the authors con…

They need to look at how people used Shopify. I'd say they have lost market share to Shopify!

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by pixl97 »

Atsuii wrote: post #52
goldcd wrote: post #23

I think the "private website" space is shrinking - despite what adverts for Wix and Squarespace might infer. The consumer/blog space of geocities, tripod and the like went to social media. Then we went through a period of "businesses putting up 10 pages for a fixed price" through first of all "a local web guy" then by themselves using Wix/WP/SS etc. I've just had a bathroom fitted by a guy who functions purely on Ins…

I think some of this is the result of how terrible Google search has gotten, although it maybe a chicken and the egg issue. It is just so much easier to find small businesses/individuals on social media/aggregators than on Google.

Social media is a spam filtering layer itself. Google on the open web has to filter out an enormous amount of spam on general search.

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by AussieWog93 »

kappuchino wrote: post #8

Do you have the same impression: Each and every plugin/extension has a commercial pro version that keeps on nagging to buy its extended warrenty ... sorry, no, to subscribe to updates for just 29.99 each, right? So 29.99 for instagram connections, 39.99 for backups pro (i'm making names and prices up, but you know the drill.) and for just 20 dollars more a security/virus check for ... what?!?! are you f**king kidding…

Honestly, those prices you mentioned are peanuts for a business customer.

We'll pay something like US$30k/year in eBay fees (including paid promotions) for a relatively small home-based operation. We're moving to a warehouse soon, so that might be another $20k/year in rent.

$30/year to solve a real problem our business has is a steal compared to this!

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by marc_io »

ggm wrote: post #83

Maybe I misread things, but this chart of market share is not declining in any real sense, its 1 percentage point variance in 43% share. So its 2% variance of their market share. Did I misread?

I don't think you misread. This post makes a lot of assumptions based on a small change, in a brief time frame.

IMO, it's not enough to dictate that WP market share is really shrinking in any significant way just because it lost less than 1% in a few months. Let's see if the trend persist in the coming years to make statements like that.

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by sanderjd »

Atsuii wrote: post #52
goldcd wrote: post #23

I think the "private website" space is shrinking - despite what adverts for Wix and Squarespace might infer. The consumer/blog space of geocities, tripod and the like went to social media. Then we went through a period of "businesses putting up 10 pages for a fixed price" through first of all "a local web guy" then by themselves using Wix/WP/SS etc. I've just had a bathroom fitted by a guy who functions purely on Ins…

I think some of this is the result of how terrible Google search has gotten, although it maybe a chicken and the egg issue. It is just so much easier to find small businesses/individuals on social media/aggregators than on Google.

I think this theory has cause and effect reversed.
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